Rojstaczer, Stuart <br/><br/>
The Mathematician's Shiva :  a novel 
/ Stuart Rojstaczer. 
 - New York  : Penguin Books  , 2014 
 - 366 p.  ; 21 cm 
<br/><br/> Alexander "Sasha" Karnokovitch and his family would like to mourn the passing of his mother, Rachela, with modesty and dignity. But Rachela, a famous Polish émigré mathematician and professor at the University of Wisconsin, is rumored to have solved the million-dollar, Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem. Rumor also has it that she spitefully took the solution to her grave. To Sasha's chagrin, a ragtag group of socially challenged mathematicians arrives in Madison and crashes the shiva, vowing to do whatever it takes to find the solution - even if it means prying up the floorboards for Rachela's notes.  Written by a trained geophysicist, this novel brims with colorful characters and captures humanity's drive not just to survive, but to solve the impossible". 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780143126317 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematicians---Fiction<br/>Mathematics---Problems, exercises, etc.---Fiction<br/>Jewish teachers--- Fiction<br/>Mourning customs---Fiction
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Humorous fiction
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS3618.O536  / M38 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>FIC ROJ